The 2021 Senedd Election

Part of 4. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:37 pm on 11 March 2020.

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Photo of Helen Mary Jones Helen Mary Jones Plaid Cymru 3:37, 11 March 2020

I'm very grateful to the Llywydd for her answer, and it's extremely encouraging. I wonder if she can say a little bit more about how young people themselves are being involved in the discussion about how best we can communicate these messages to them? And, on a slightly different but related matter, can she tell us what partnerships are being developed to enable those foreign national citizens who will be able to vote in our Senedd elections to become aware? I just happened to have a conversation with a friend of mind who's originally from Romania, and she was very surprised, as well as very delighted, to know that she'd be able to vote in the next election, as would her husband, who's originally from Poland. So, those two points, really—how are we involving young people in the discussions about how best to get the messages across, and how are we enabling those citizens whose roots are elsewhere to understand that they can vote in this election?